A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?

. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.